InsightSquared

JULY 1, 2019

Today’s marketing success relies heavily on deep analytics—analytics that allow marketers to act smarter, faster, and with more thoughtfulness than ever before—to not only gain the attention of today’s savvy B2B buyer, but to engage, nurture, and enable that buyer through the end of their decision-making process. Let’s dive in.

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6sense

JANUARY 20, 2022

This is why 6sense is leading what we’re calling the RevTech Revolution – the convergence of martech and salestech that’s revolutionizing the way B2B revenue teams go-to-market with data, insights, and orchestration capabilities at the core. It requires a movement. . A Perfect Storm. What does the RevTech Revolution Look Like?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 12, 2018

According to MarketingSherpa, 61% of B2B marketers send all of their leads to sales even though only 27% are actually qualified. Customer Qualification Cycle: MQL vs. SQL. MQLs show repeated interest in your website content (not necessarily your product or services) and are likely to become your customer. Sound familiar?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 9, 2017

In this post, I will share some thoughts on how you can assess the relevancy of intent data by asking three questions. Company websites, B2B publishers, business or technology-focused online communities. Some of the best intent data on the market today comes from well-known B2B content communities where buyers go to self-educate.

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MKT1

JULY 13, 2023

I thought this project was a great example of where “content marketing” and marketing in general is going. B2B Marketing Strategy: 2-Hour Workshop next week on 7/19 from 9-11 AM PT. So I wrote this newsletter and made a video with some early-stage marketers to help. 250,10% off for paid subscribers. Includes peer review.

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Engagio

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Adjust your definition of MQLs and MQAs. Not everyone who shows interest in your product or service can be an MQL. Automate notifications. Anything and everything that requires immediate response from Sales or a customer-facing team needs to have automated notifications. Don’t worry, we’ll get you up to speed.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

At this time, there are a handful of companies in the B2B space (known as third-party intent data providers ) that can provide you with data on what your prospects are learning and talking about online. Every industry has movers and shakers who are prolific at creating educational and thought leadership content.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 22, 2012

MQL to SAL: 66%. Best Practice B2B Company Rates: Inquiries to MQL: 9.3%. MQL to SAL: 85%. Create : Automation expert. The problem, though, is that marketers have to face the realities of the B2B Buying Cycle: You control less. The Complete B2B Persona. SAL to SQL: 49%. SQL to Close: 20%. Measurement.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 10, 2016

Author: Krysia Hepatica You might be familiar with Dunbar’s Number, but I bet you never realized how it affects your B2B marketing strategy. Marketing Automation. Marketing automation helps you keep your brand top-of-mind for your buyers. A CRM works in conjunction with your marketing automation platform to manage your leads.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 7, 2016

According to MarketingSherpa, 61% of B2B marketers send all leads directly to sales; however, only 27% of those leads will be qualified (aka in that “right time” window). As you implement lead scoring in your marketing automation platform, think about creating metrics based on: Demographic or Firmographic Scoring. What is an MQL?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 29, 2016

Even more exciting is that our integration enables an expansion of this offline conversion concept to a much broader set of use cases that apply to all marketers , B2B marketers included. Here are a few examples of offline conversion events that come to mind: MQL (marketing qualified lead). Increase MQLs. Event attendance.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 1, 2015

Author: Amy Guarino Forrester’s pronouncement of the death of the B2B salesperson recently made headlines. How does this new digital-first world effect the traditional B2B salesperson? How does this new digital-first world effect the traditional B2B salesperson? Have there been any important leadership changes in the company?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Clean and accurate data is always top-of-mind for B2B marketers because without it, your demand generation team can’t send relevant content to leads and your sales team can’t tailor their conversations with leads during each step of the buyer’s journey. First, let’s talk about data.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Author: Mary Kate Francis If you’re a B2B marketer, you’re probably familiar with demand generation in one way or another. Once a lead becomes an MQL, sales evaluates whether the lead is qualified through a phone call or email based on interest in your product or service and whether they’re a good fit.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 12, 2010

SAL – Sales Accepted Leads is the bridge between Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL) and Sales Qualified Leads (SQL). Clearly defining and understanding the implications of MQL, SAL and SQL are critical to the success of B2B lead generation. These days, respect for B2B and industrial marketing is spelled as M E T R I C S.

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Metadata

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The majority of B2B marketers still think about demand generation as a series of tactics, rather than a larger marketing strategy. We’ll walk you through our approach to creating a winning B2B demand generation strategy. What is B2B demand generation? The definition of B2B demand generation covers a lot of bases.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 13, 2016

Today, I saw that pipeline is the #1 thing your business should be looking at if you’re in B2B. Is your revenue team aligned on the definition of a lead, MQL, SQL, or opportunity? The example below shows how a webinar program is tracked in Marketo (although you can use another marketing automation system to do this).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

If you already have lead scoring built into your marketing automation, does predictive lead scoring negate it, or work side by side? The webinar will highlight how TrackMaven is using Fliptop and Marketo together to better qualify marketing leads, improve MQL to SQL conversion rates, and drive predictable revenue. Lead Scoring b2b'

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

According to the SiriusDecisions Demand Waterfall, the middle of the funnel is the area where the marketing to sales hand-off happens (MQL to SAL) and where the sales development representative (SDR) to account executive (AE) hand-off happens (SAL to SQL). What is the middle of the funnel? The middle of the funnel, or MOFU, is like a valve.

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Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2017

It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Passion for conceptualizing and implementing marketing strategy, exceeding targeted projections, and leading teams for both B2B & B2C programs.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 12, 2016

Joe started by highlighting a few problems that marketing organizations are facing today—a sharp decay curve in their subscriber’s interest and attention, the fact that the MQL (marketing qualified lead) is subjective and therefore “eating” marketing, and that inbound is a long-tail strategy that takes a while to fully demonstrate its ROI.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 11, 2020

The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. This week’s episode is entitled “ Marketing’s Leadership Moment: Pivots and more with Kevin Marasco ” Kevin is the CEO of Zenefits. Now we’re like, come in, whatever.

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Terminus

MAY 24, 2017

Innovative B2B marketers and CMOs are rallying behind the idea of account-based marketing (ABM) because it’s a proven strategy to grow revenue. For decades, B2B SaaS industry leaders have been misguided in their view of marketing as a lead gen machine. Marketing automation to nurture, grade, and score contacts and prospects.

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Velocity Partners

APRIL 16, 2024

This is the sixth in a series we’re running about the new B2B GTM playbook. The other day, I had the privilege of sitting down with Jon Miller, founder CEO of Marketo and Engagio and most recently CMO at B2B Go-to-Market powerhouse Demandbase. You talk about how the old B2B playbook just doesn’t work anymore. SW : Hi Jon.

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Terminus

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As a product creator and innovator, I wanted to plant my flag in the next wave of leading B2B MarTech solutions and create something special with Terminus. In fact, it’s quickly become a widely adopted, common-sense approach to B2B marketing strategy — though not without new challenges.

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Rev

JANUARY 18, 2023

Learn more about: Demand generation vs lead generation Why is demand generation important for B2B companies? How to develop a B2B demand generation strategy Your marketing team is likely already doing things to drive demand for your product or service. Why would I need to focus on demand gen?” We’ll discuss that soon.

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Golden Spiral

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Marketing automation is a software solution combined with a process that enables companies to automate marketing tasks and messages to improve efficiencies and grow revenue more quickly. Nucleus Research reports marketing automation improves productivity by an average of 20 percent. Sounds great, right? More revenue.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 25, 2012

Here are ten reasons why we love this campaign: Leads go directly into our marketing automation software in real-time. A scheduled series of targeted emails and flow steps takes the campaign participant on a journey to marketing qualified lead(MQL). Have you been successful implementing marketing automation with your social campaigns?

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Engagio

JUNE 4, 2023

Throughout my career, I’ve had the privilege of being part of two revolutions: the advent of demand generation fueled by marketing automation, and the breakthrough of account-based marketing brought to life by ABM platforms. Let’s dive into the 9 compelling reasons why buying groups will be the next big thing in B2B.

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Engagio

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Traditional Go-to-Market (GTM) processes – and technologies – are built around the lead, the individual buyer who progresses along your funnel until becoming a Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) and is then passed like a baton from Marketing to Sales. This is your one-stop on-demand streaming hub for all the latest in B2B Go-To-Market.

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

At B2B companies, CRM data is widely regarded as the most credible revenue record, so when marketing teams integrate their data into the CRM, it improves perceptions of marketing’s reports, not only with sales colleagues but in the C-suite too. MQL vs Revenue-Based Demand Planning. State of B2B Full-Funnel Measurement.

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PureB2B

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Then only a percentage of that percentage will convert to MQL, and so on and so forth. Sales Development Process Falling Under Sales Leadership. Sales development should report to sales leadership, based on the how much influence they can have over pipeline generation. You get the struggle? This makes sense, right?

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PureB2B

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Then only a percentage of that percentage will convert to MQL, and so on and so forth. Sales Development Process Falling Under Sales Leadership. Sales development should report to sales leadership, based on the how much influence they can have over pipeline generation. You get the struggle? This makes sense, right?

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Single Grain

APRIL 24, 2023

With so many digital marketing tactics available, it can be challenging to know which ones will work best for your B2B business. That’s why we’ve put together a collection of eight B2B digital marketing case studies to inspire you.

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SmartBug Media

JUNE 15, 2022

An average of 41 percent of B2B buyers always read at least five pieces of content before contacting a salesperson from the organization. For B2B, LinkedIn and Facebook are the big players to connect with professionals. Break up your content to have a mix of promotion, thought leadership articles, and miscellaneous, engaging content.

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The ABM Agency

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Our recent webinar on the difference between account based marketing, demand generation and B2B lead generation. Robber or Jason, if you have any other thoughts there. And, you know, here are the thought leaders that brought this to us. Reading Time: 17 minutes. Watch the video or read the transcript below! Rob Elbaz .

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

To paraphrase Digital Marketing Strategist, Ross Simmonds; review sites like G2 are becoming an undeniable influence for B2B software — they already rank #2 for 70+ branded terms and #1 for hundreds of bottom of the funnel pages. Our POV mix includes thought leadership articles, brand videos, social content, speeches, and editorial podcasts.

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